eLearning Roadtrip

Since You've Asked: More About the PAR Framework

ellen wagner — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:31:21 PST

The December 15, 2011 Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus blog by Marc Parry shared news about a groundbreaking project we have taken on at WCET. It describes our efforts to create a single, federated database of de-identified student records...

eLearning Isn't Software

ellen wagner — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:07:15 PST

One of the reasons I attend learning technology conferences is that they offer a highly efficient way to scan the horizon for emerging trends likely to affect learning technology adoption. Conferences also provide a chance to see which "idea seeds"...

20 "eLearnings" From Two Months on the Road(trip)

ellen wagner — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:18:52 PST

Been a busy couple of months of elearning road-trips. From EDUCAUSE to Online EDUCA, from WCET to WICHE, from DevLearn to AECT (with a little bit of virtual Sloan-C tossed in for good measure). Literally thousands of plenaries, presentations, and...

Are YOU the Chief Online Education Officer at your Institution?

ellen wagner — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:13:48 PST

If so, we'd like to ask you to invite you to participate in a survey research project. For the third year, WCET is partnering with the Campus Computing Project to conduct the Managing Online Education survey. The survey focuses on...

On Secret Handshakes and Making the World a Better Place with ID

ellen wagner — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:39:23 PST

I attended the 2011 annual conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) in Jacksonville, FL this past week. AECT is a professional association focused on scholarship in the academic disciplines associated with instructional design. Its members are...

Lessons Revisited: RADAR, Pearl Harbor and Paying Attention to Evidence

ellen wagner — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:53:24 PDT

One of our Sage Road Solutions LLC clients, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, is holding its biannual meeting at the BYU Hawaii campus on the island of Oahu this week. Having spent the past several days in Denver...

Big Data Comes to US Higher Education

ellen wagner — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:10:00 PDT

WCET, the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, today announced the successful federation of datasets from the six institutions participating in the PAR (Predictive Analytics Reporting) Framework proof of concept project, just four months after the project’s early June launch. The...

Badges?! We don’t need no stinkin’… Oh, wait, maybe we do.

ellen wagner — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:14:09 PDT

Are you using badges yet? via imserious.typepad.com Great post from Anne Derryberry. Very pleased that she will be joining the Sage Road crew as a subject matter expert consultant as we take on the task of morphing learning analytics with...

Honoring Steve

ellen wagner — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:16:04 PDT

I have been asking friends if they had been startled at the strength of the emotions he or she has experienced at the passing of Steve Jobs. To a person, each has said yes. I've wondered if some of the...

Thought You Might be Interested...

ellen wagner — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:19:31 PDT

...in some of the thoughts I shared with my WCET crew today about learning analytics and lessons we can learn from Moneyball. It's an extension of my eLearning Roadtrip post on the same general topic. I suppose this gives you...